Goja vavilovi, Carrejo & Obando & Casasola-González & García Aldrete, 2021

Carrejo, Nancy, Obando, Ranulfo González, Casasola-González, José Arturo & García Aldrete, Alfonso N., 2021, New Colombian Goja Navás (Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Epipsocidae) with peculiar genitalia, and the first Goja with brachypterous male, from Oaxaca, Mexico, Zootaxa 5040 (4), pp. 451-481 : 472-478

Goja vavilovi n. sp.

( Figs 46–56 )

Diagnosis. Head pattern similar to that of G. tenerife n. sp., differing from it in the wing venation, in the median posterior process of the hypandrium, in the posterior processes of the aedeagal arch and in the endophallic sclerites (compare Figs 34-35 with Figs 46-47 , Figs 38 with 50, and Figs 39 with 51 in this paper). Unlike G. meremberg n.

sp., G. tenerife n. sp., and G. garridoi n. sp., it presents the mesal endopallic sclerites distally widened, the right one somewhat similar to that of G. mereberg n. sp., but without an elongated apical process.

Male. Color (in 80% ethanol). Body pale brown. Head pattern ( Fig. 48 ), with a wide black transverse band betwen the compound eyes, enclosing the ocellar triangle; front, postclypeus, genae and postgenae cream; genae with small dark brown spots. Compound eyes dark brown; ocelli hyaline, ocellar triangle ochre; anteclypeus pale brown, labrum pale brown, labral sclerites brown. Antennae: scape cream, pedicel and flagella pale brown. Maxillary palps pale brown. Thorax pale brown, pronotum cream, tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax brown, meso- and metapleura brown. Legs: fore- coxae cream; mid- and hind- coxae with light brown outer side, inner side cream; trochanters, femora and tibiae cream, tarsi light brown. Forewings ( Fig. 46 ) hyaline; pterostigma with proximal and distal pale brown bands, veins brown. Hindwings ( Fig. 47 ), hyaline, veins brown. Abdomen pale brown. Clunium brown. Hypandrium pale brown. Phallosome brown, with aedeagal arch dark brown, external parameres pale brown. Epiproct and paraprocts pale brown.

Morphology. Head: H/MxW: 1.42; compound eyes large, H/d: 3.44; IO/MxW: 0.64. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with eight denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.07. Lower border of labrum with a pair of rounded projections. Forewings ( Fig. 46 ): FW/W: 2.75; Pterostigma elongate: lp/wp: 5.56; Rs of 3-4 branches; M of 4-6 branches, some forked; Rs stem concave; areola postica low, elongate: al/ah: 3.53. Hindwings ( Fig. 47 ): HW/w: 3.06, Rs 2- branched; M 3-4 branched; Rs and M joined by a crossvein. Legs: trochanters with two long setae; fore- tarsi without ctenidiobothria, mid- and hind- tarsi with ctenidiobothria. Hypandrium ( Fig. 50 ) broad, sides parallel, setae as illustrated, median posterior process large, posterior border rounded Phallosome ( Fig. 51 ) anteriorly obtusely concave in the middle, side struts slender, straight, widening anteriorly; aedeagal arch with large posterior processes distally rounded. Endophallic sclerites ( Fig. 51 ). Paraprocts ( Fig. 49 ), oval, elongate, with setae and macrosetae along posterior bor- der; sensory fields with 30-31 trichobothria in basal rosettes. Epiproct ( Fig. 49 ) broad, almost straight anteriorly, rounded posteriorly, with one macroseta mesally, other setae as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 5475, HW: 4075, F: 1300, T: 2325, t1: 1040, t2: 280, ctt1: 40, f1: 1330, f2: 1230, f3: 860, Mx4: 320, IO: 498, d: 320, D: 360, IO/d: 1.56, PO: 0.89.

Female. Color (in 80% ethanol). Body, head ( Fig. 53 ), legs, epiproct and paraprocts as in the male, plus the following: Forewings cream, posterior margin brown; subgenital plate brown. Gonapophyses pale brown, distal process brown. IX sternum yellowish.

Morphology. Head: H/MxW: 1.57; compound eyes large, H/d: 4.07; IO/MxW: 0.71. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with eight-nine denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.19. Lower border of labrum with a pair of rounded projections. Forewings as a small ovoid scale, surface with setae, without veins ( Fig. 52 ): FW/W: 1.40. Hindwings absent. Legs: Hind- coxae with rasp much smaller than tympanum; trochanters of mid- and hind- legs with two long setae on dorsal surface, trochanter of fore- legs without setae on dorsum; tarsomeres of all legs without ctenidiobothria. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 55 ) triangular, broad, apex rounded, with short setae as illustrated. Gonapophyses ( Fig. 56 ): v1 absent; v2+3 triangular, with eight setae on v3; distal process elongate and straight, acuminate, with microspines; IX sternite ( Fig. 56 ) without distinct borders, spermapore proximal to posterior margin; spermapore duct short, curved. Paraprocts ( Fig. 54 ), triangular, elongate, long setae posteriorly, sensory fields with four trichobothria in basal rosettes. Epiproct ( Fig. 54 ) triangular, elongate, broad based, rounded apically, setae as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 600, F: 1175, T: 1850, t1: 890, t2: 270, ctt1: 0.0, Mx4: 320, IO: 500, d: 270, D: 320, IO/d: 1.85, PO: 0.84.

Specimens studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca. Santiago de Cali , San Antonio, La Horqueta, 3°29’23.5”N: 76°37’39.4”W, 2142 m., 23.V.2012, R. González . Paratypes: 1 female, same data as the holotype . 1 male, Santiago de Cali , Km. 18, road to Buenaventura, 03°30’38.3’’N, 76°37’13.8’’W, 1990 m. 27.I.2012 . 1 male, Jamundí , Mesetas, farm El Diviso, 2080 m., undated, Alexander von Humboldt Institute, Malaise trap .

Etymology. This species is dedicated to Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, a prominent botanist and geneticist, author of the theory on the centers of origin of cultivated plants and pioneer in the establishment of gene banks.

Figures

FIGURES 46‒51. Goja vavilovi n. sp. Male. 46. Forewing. 47. Hindwing. 48. Front view of head. 49. Left paraproct and epiproct. 50. Hypandrium. 51. Phallosome. Scales in mm.

FIGURES 52‒56. Goja vavilovi n. sp. Female. 52. Winglet. 53. Front view of head. 54. Left paraproct and epiproct. 55. Subgenital plate. 56. Ninth sternum and left gonapophyses. Scales in mm.

FIGURES 34‒39. Goja tenerife n. sp. Male. 34. Forewing. 35. Hindwing. 36. Front view of head. 37. Left paraproct and epiproct. 38. Hypandrium. 39. Phallosome. Scales in mm.